WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)

Description

In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips about the housing units being constructed by Action-Housing, Inc., two unidentified white males are interviewed about the project.In the first segment, an unidentified off-camera reporter asks: "Are you ever accused of blockbusting?" An unidentified white male responds: "Very rarely because most people understand that blockbusting is an effort to take a community which is all white and make it into an all Negro community with the purpose of making big money fast while doing it. We have no such purpose and nobody has ever seriously though we had such a purpose." There is a short break, then the clip continues, "...people. One way would be the construction of a great deal of housing for people in the 4 to 8, 9, 10,000 dollar income range. And as these people, many of whom are poorly housed today, get housing, the housing that they leave will be used, even though much of it's marginal, would be used by the lowest economic level. However, since you do need housing and you do want to build new housing for the lowest economic level, you have to press, in my opinion, for additional tools. One tool, which can be provided either by the federal government or by local big industry, is loans at 0-6% interest rate, flexible interest rate loans, which go up as income of a newly-housed family goes up, so that a family might start at, let's say, 1 or 2% interest and gradually to up...

Record Contributed By

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia